List of Famous people who died in 2005

Elisabeth Fraser was an American actress, best known for playing brassy blondes.

John Donovan Cannon was an American actor. An alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, he is best known for his co-starring role of Chief of Detectives Peter B. Clifford in the NBC television series, McCloud with Dennis Weaver from 1970 until 1977, and also for his part as the witness Lloyd Chandler who was able to clear Dr. Richard Kimble in "The Judgment", the series finale of ABC's The Fugitive.

Gerry Wolff was a German actor. He was born in Bremen, Germany and died in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.

John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.

Hussein Mahmoud Hassan el-Shafei, also known as Hussein el-Shafei, was a member of Egypt's 1952 revolutionary leadership council and served as Vice-president under two Egyptian presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement, led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising and was one of only three living members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.